Create book reviews that popup on title mouseover?

  • A friend asked me about creating a page where he can list titles of books he has read….and to somehow have a description showup for one book, then disappear when you read a description of another book.

    I started thinking of maybe mouseovers on the title.

    Anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Basically make a page where he can add a title and a short description of the book. You mouseover the title and the description comes up, when you mouseover another book title it’s description pops up. While typing this out, I started thinking of “nice titles” and wondered if that might work for this?

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Most current browsers support the title attribute in just about any X/HTML tag (and being a core attribute makes it valid just about everywhere), which is a low-effort version of the various nice title methods out there.

    Isn’t the problem with both the inherent title and the “nicer titles” plugins the fact that there’s no way to induce line-breaks?

    I’d call it a limitation, but yep.

    Okay – limitation it is. And I do wish some really clever sod would come up with a way to force those line-breaks, y’know?

    Contact W3.org and tell em like it is ??

    To the original poster, I am playing with the plugin Acronym Replacer as a sort of glossary, where important words, when moused over, give a brief definition of the word. I don’t know why that wouldn’t work with what you are describing.
    Plugin found here

    You might want to try avatar popup (https://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-avatar-gravatar-popup/)

    It’s designed for avatars or any other photo/image associated with a word or text in your blog entry.

    You could make 200px x 200px or larger images with a small synopsis or review of the book, associate it with the book title. When hovered over the image would popup.

    Just a thought and believe it would work better than acronym replacer mentioned above.

    Just a thought and believe it would work better than acronym replacer mentioned above.

    Perhaps, but depending on how many books are reviewed, the reviewer may find himself creating a lot of images, and taking up more and more space. Acronym replacer is simply a text file.
    Bottom line, both are viable options for the user to look at.

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